...good luck finding that cape Erik!
That will be hard I think...but I think
I've seen a repro-cape on Yahoo.
But repro...hmmm...not really a option...

Skull Star is one of my favorites too,
but didn't find one with sash for a
reasonable price till now.
There is only one "expensive" one on Yahoo.
I'm not yet ready spending so much for him...well not "yet" ;-)

The same thing happens when I post zenmai tin brogs. I collect something "most" people here are not into, and then poof, I get people asking me all about them, where to get them,what to pay, etc and then eventually I pay more, or lose auctions because now more people are bidding. Oh well, it is the nature of the beast I guess. Those are some cool vinyls though! ;-D

Well, I was into tins long before your Leo blog. I won't go after the wrestling figures. If I was made of money maybe. I got a lot of things I want before that.

BTW, if anyone wants to look at all the ones that have been made, The "Get the Vintage" book 3 pages with pictures of all of them. I count 24. One of the stranger ones is a guy with 3 figures of him at different sizes. Did he have shrinking powers? Kind of cool actually. Also a shot of the ring. I wonder if that was sold boxed.

gaiking123 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Well, I was into tins long before your Leo blog. I
> won't go after the wrestling figures. If I was
> made of money maybe. I got a lot of things I want
> before that.
>

Actually I am not talking about anyone specifically. I have written many blogs about tins and talk to lots of collectors. ;-) Just an observation about how these things happen from my own point of view.

@Jon
Yepp, that ultrasonic cleaner mainly for Jewelry,
but now it's transformed into a "sofubi-regeneration-chamber"

...and that ring mat is pretty cool, not bad either is that
black Atache Case (http://www4.airnet.ne.jp/pancra/tiger/graphicf1/body/naka_case.gif). Inside that case there is that
wrestling ring playset with cardboard backing cards.

<<<<<Actually I am not talking about anyone specifically. I have written many blogs about tins and talk to lots of collectors. ;-) Just an observation about how these things happen from my own point of view.>>>>

Cool although I have to admit, your blogs may have gotten me more interested in the windup ones. I will probably try to get them eventually but not right now.

Going back to Tiger Mask, Here is a picture of the toy I'm talking about.

I guess I got confused by how they show him in 3 sizes and not anyone else in the book.
I like what I thought more if it was a toy that comes with 3 sizes cause the character can shrink. Ha. He looks like the main baddie with that smiley face and suit.

I recently watched a late night talk show here (Japan) that voted Mr. No, Piranha and Gorilla man as the 3 most over-the top villains. They were each featured in a short clip, really wacky and hilarious stuff.

Off topic, last winter there were a series of heart warming pseudo-anonymous donation incidents that went by the name of Tiger mask, Naoto Date to several child protection centers.

Medicom recently started reissuing the Tiger Mask standard vinyls. These re-issues are sold mainly through pre-orders. The first 2 villains, the red death mask and lion man were out a while ago and sold out. The current 2 on pre-order are Miracle 3 and Golden mask. The ring is also being re-issued.

I just received the Medicom re-issued Miracle 3. The package comes in 2 plastic bags; the originL Nakajima version inside a larger Medicom one. The Medicom header shows the phrase "•œh, meaning re-issued. I will open it later and check the toy itself.

There is no indication of "re-issued" on Miracle 3. Each sole of the red boots is marked with the 2 authors' names, Kajiwara and Tsuji, and the Nakajima turtle logo on the heels, same as the original I think.

The re-issued version of Tigermask and Miracle 3. MSRP of each is 6800-7800 yen. According to the Medicom store in Shibuya they are only sold through pre-order (therefore not a great quantity made). I wouldn't expect that these re-issued ones are later sold as the originals, but someone who owns both versions would wanna do a comparison?

The occasional rough and linear line work in the Tiger Mask anime is quite charming, almost a little Egon Schiele-esque. I really hope that the sofubi can capture that aspect while maintaining the Showa 40's aesthetics.

Medicom and Denjin collaborated on this anime version Tiger and Mr. Fudou. It would be nice if Tiger's mask shows bit more edge.